All posts tagged ‘Apollo XI’

I was too young to enjoy watching Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon in 1969, but I did grow up waiting in anticipation for the first Shuttle launch. (I still have my Young/Crippen mission patch!) I sent the NASA PR department about one letter every week in 1980 and 1981, asking for any pictures or brochures they could send me back. Over the course of two years, I had a stack about two feet tall of full-color books, pamphlets, technical documents (for public dissemination), and all kinds of photos and collector cards. My vision was bad, and I was old enough to know that astronaut training was out of the picture, but thoughts of actually working for NASA were always in the back of my mind. Years passed, school ended, job and family arrived, and the next thing I knew the shuttle was being retired. But still, my fascination with NASA continues, and I believe it always will.

A number of years ago, I discovered a sci-fi writer named Jack McDevitt. I could not get enough of his stories and have finally caught up with his entire catalog of short stories and novels. Now, when a new McDevitt novel is announced, it actually goes into my calendar so I can pick it up on New Book Tuesday.